Check out NBC’s “Ab Fab: Guess the swimmer” game, where you can see torsos of Olympic swimmers and match them to the right face. Funny, there’s no female version of it. NBC wouldn’t dare. Showing headless bodies of beautiful women would make, well, heads roll.
http://www.nbcolympics.com/swimming/photos/galleryid=156776.html
Is it a double-standard? Why is it okay to chop up men’s bodies for women to look at but not the other way around?
Well, for one, men LIKE to be objectified. We WANT to be seen as sexual objects, we want —OH GOD *YES*– to be used for base, endless sexual purposes. But more importantly, we’re not going to suffer the consequences of objectification, since we pretty much own everything and run most of it. If women truly shared power with men, objectifying them wouldn’t be objectionable. But they don’t, so it is.
Using the headless bodies of men works in NBC’s “Ab Fab” game because it adds a welcome recreational layer to our power and self-esteem. If they used women’s headless bodies all they’d do is perpetuate the widespread perception that a woman’s worth starts from the neck down.
Let us all keep our heads about us and leer with respect.